Meaning of lockup house | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small house where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest, especially where debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison.
   historical
2. A lodging house where men are kept and forced to enlist in the army or navy.
   colloquial, historical, obsolete

Examples

“He kept a lock-up house in Great Earle Street, Soho, and, although by profession a tailor, he had fitted it up most elegantly as a tavern.”

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